MR-1 — North-star outranks the backlog
If a proposed change does not serve the north-star intent and is not
load-bearing infrastructure (auth, storage, deploy, schema, contract),
it goes to docs/backlog/frozen/. It does not get implemented. It does
not get a milestone.
Mechanism: every doc in docs/ declares its rank in front-matter:
---rank: north-star # or: decisions, findings, runbooks, backlogoutranks: [backlog] # what this doc supersedes if conflict---The outranks graph must be a DAG (no cycles). The drift-watcher
subagent reads it when adjudicating ambiguity.
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